Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Matthias Andree
2005-12-04T16:23:39Z

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved."
> >
> > > > These use inter_module_get()
> > >
> > > which is still there even in the latest 2.6.15-rc. It should be going
> > > out but hasn't yet. And that is the case for at least a year (eg they
> > > are __deprecated but still there).
> >
> > No, they aren't - at least not anywhere declared below include/ and thus
> > uncompilable with GCC4.
>
> # pwd
> /mnt/raid/linux/linux-2.6.15-rc4/include/linux
> [root@jackhammer linux]# grep inter_mod *
> module.h:extern void __deprecated inter_module_register(const char *,
> module.h:extern void __deprecated inter_module_unregister(const char *);
> module.h:extern const void * __deprecated inter_module_get_request(const
> char *,
> module.h:extern void __deprecated inter_module_put(const char *);

Same story with -rc5. As you can see, there is no declaration for
inter_module_get(), just the _request() variant. So what now? :-P

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Matthias Andree